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Feb. 4th, 2008 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperOut there, there has to be a decent media site for gay and bi women. There are plenty of media sites for gay and bi women. But all the ones I've come across? They read like the bloody gay women's magazines.
To iterate : I long ago gave up reading magazines aimed at gay and bi women, and this is reinforced every time I go back to them. They're bloody boring. Not just boring. 'meh' levels of boring. So boring they're not even Moneybox and Any Answers levels of background boring, actively 'let me shoot myself so I am less BORED'. For a description : Gay Times is going through a very boring, earnest phase, but at least it's vaguely readable and the pictures are pretty. Attitude and Out and their ilk are fun and pretty and bitchy and shallow and a good read. All the gay womens' mags? They're more boring than Gay Times, with added Rhona Cameron. Trying to be perky but it's forced and horribly earnest and immensely irritating. Like being force-fed carob and constantly being preached that 'no really, it's just as tasty as chocolate!'.
Gay and bi mens' media sites? http://out.com and http://afterelton.com may be sometimes completely wrongheaded and shallow, but they're fun to read. http://afterellen.com is like being being made to read Rhona Cameron and Julie Burchill at once. ARGH.
Maybe I should learn. Never go anywhere near women's gay and bi media sites that have that much organisation and sponsorship. Stay with lj. Stay with blogs. Stay with webcomics. They're fun and insightful and pretty, after all. It's just that I'd really like to find a gay and bi womens' media site on the level of afterellen that's on the same level of the mens' ones. I want it. We deserve it. WE DESERVE SANDI TOKSVIG, DAMMIT.
Sandi Toksvig in a waistcoat and smoking jacket and a moustache with a pipe. Dammit.
To iterate : I long ago gave up reading magazines aimed at gay and bi women, and this is reinforced every time I go back to them. They're bloody boring. Not just boring. 'meh' levels of boring. So boring they're not even Moneybox and Any Answers levels of background boring, actively 'let me shoot myself so I am less BORED'. For a description : Gay Times is going through a very boring, earnest phase, but at least it's vaguely readable and the pictures are pretty. Attitude and Out and their ilk are fun and pretty and bitchy and shallow and a good read. All the gay womens' mags? They're more boring than Gay Times, with added Rhona Cameron. Trying to be perky but it's forced and horribly earnest and immensely irritating. Like being force-fed carob and constantly being preached that 'no really, it's just as tasty as chocolate!'.
Gay and bi mens' media sites? http://out.com and http://afterelton.com may be sometimes completely wrongheaded and shallow, but they're fun to read. http://afterellen.com is like being being made to read Rhona Cameron and Julie Burchill at once. ARGH.
Maybe I should learn. Never go anywhere near women's gay and bi media sites that have that much organisation and sponsorship. Stay with lj. Stay with blogs. Stay with webcomics. They're fun and insightful and pretty, after all. It's just that I'd really like to find a gay and bi womens' media site on the level of afterellen that's on the same level of the mens' ones. I want it. We deserve it. WE DESERVE SANDI TOKSVIG, DAMMIT.
Sandi Toksvig in a waistcoat and smoking jacket and a moustache with a pipe. Dammit.
